Palo Alto: Police chopper used to search for interrupted home burglary suspects

By Jason Green

Daily News Staff Writer

Posted:
04/14/2014 11:23:30 PM PDT

Updated:
04/14/2014 11:23:31 PM PDT

A police helicopter was used Monday night to help look for a trio of suspects in an interrupted burglary in Palo Alto.

The crime on Stockton Place was reported to police at about 8:15 p.m., said Detective Sgt. Brian Philip of the Palo Alto Police Department. One juvenile suspect was detained following a vehicle stop on the 100 block of Maddux Drive, Philip said.

The San Jose Police Department sent its Air Two helicopter to help look for the other two suspects, Philip said. But as of 9:45 p.m., the aerial search had concluded with the suspects still at large.

The interrupted burglary is the second in less than a month in Palo Alto. On March 24, a resident on the 800 block of Ames Avenue called police after viewing surveillance footage on her smartphone that showed two people she didn't recognize inside her home. Those suspects also eluded police.

In an unrelated case, Philip said police arrested a man on suspicion of burglarizing a home on the 100 block of Ferne Avenue earlier in the day.